Pathology

I thought it was an intriguing concept that, if done right, would've made for a fantastic movie. The twisted characters were interesting, but flat at the same time. I think that the leader of this game was psychotic and disturbing in all the best ways, but the rest of the players were passionless and had no mind capturing aspects. The main character was confusing at best, but played as well as he could be by Milo Ventimiglia. This movie needed to be rewritten, taking a serious look into how this game started and why the players found it so captivating and why Ted Gray (the main character) got involved at all. Also, the relationship between Ted and his fiance was lacking, especially since he cheated on her and then was so willing to avenge her death. I was pleasantly surprised at the end when the nice pathologist character, who I was sure was going to die, ended up aiding Ted in killing the ring leader. I think this movie would've been fantastic if the writers had taken more time to develop the story .

i researched this film becasue i want to involve drugs into my video and how it effects the charater . I think the film executed this perfectly, demonstrating this by their unordinary profound behaviour .

Nosferatu

Skillfully mounted and directed, this symbolical legendary cinema story of reanimated ghosts in a period set about a century or so ago when vampirism was pretty well entrenched in the world's beliefs, is a depressive piece of art made even more incompatible for bourgeois theatre fare because of misspotted and poor titling. Latter lends the film more than one confusing moment and therefore it is a risky exhibit for the sure seaters, too ­ although the artistic quality of settings and direction command consideration, this and Murnau's work leaving the question open whether this film was made long ago or lately.

Story is claimed to have been inspired by "Dracula." Whether the play or the book not told. Bram Stoker authored the novel more than 20 years ago and the play which was based on it, written by Hamilton Dean and John Balderson, produced on Broadway by Horace Liveright in October, 1927.
Like the play the picture is a shivery melo spilling ghostlike impossibilities from beginning to end. Action details the forages of a nobleman who is dead yet alive, making night time raids on human beings and compelling them to become subservient to him by sucking the blood from their necks, often plaguing them to death. His especial delight is a pretty woman.

Murnau proved his directorial artistry in "Sunrise" for Fox about three years ago, but in this picture he's a master artisan demonstrating not only a knowledge of the subtler side of directing but in photography.
One shot of the sun cracking at dawn is an eye filler. Among others of extremely imaginative beauty is one which takes in a schooner sailing in a rippling stream photographed in such a manner that it has the illusion of color and an enigmatic weirdness that's more perplexing than the ghost action of the players.
His funeral scene in the deserted town street where the bodies of the plague victims are carried in coffins held aloft by straggling pallbearers is unusual to say the least. Empty shattering buildings photographed to suggest the desperate desolation brought on by the vampire is extremely effective symbolism.

Limitless

Any aspiring writer -- or artist, or filmmaker -- knows what it's like to sit there at the computer and stare at a blank page. Self doubt fueled by rejection after rejection, failed and half-finished projects, credit card bills that have piled up, a girlfriend who wants you to get a real job… Eventually, the question cannot be ignored: Do I really have what it takes to do this?

That's the dilemma that limitless Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is facing. He's a down-on-his luck author, or would-be author, whose life seems to be passing him by. Squirreled away on the outskirts of Manhattan -- well, the Lower East Side anyway -- he's one of those guys we've all encountered before. Youth and ambition have slowly morphed into desperation and desolation. And then he discovers NZT.

It's a drug that allows the user to expand his or her mind, to use 100% of their brain power as opposed to the mere 10% or 20% or whatever that is typically accessed by a human being. When Eddie drops his first hit of NZT, he is immediately transformed, as is director Neil Burger's depiction of Eddie's world. From the humdrum, washed-out and grungy palette of Lesser Eddie is born a new bright and vibrant and intense visual world for Better Eddie. Suddenly able to access every bit of information he's ever seen or heard or smelled, memories he doesn't even know he has, books he glimpsed years earlier, and so on, the NZT-ified Eddie becomes, in essence, the smartest man in the world. The film sets up some very interesting questions but it doesn't answer too many of them as it becomes more of a standard thriller in its final act, as Eddie is accused of murder (which he may or may not have committed even he isn't sure), is pursued by a Russian mobster who has also developed a taste for NZT, and must work out the fine details of a big corporate merger for Van Loon. Oh, and NZT turns out to be highly dangerous: If you stop taking it, you die, basically.
In this film i love all the small cuts ( jump cuts) which creates the effect of the drug working . It is filled with action and not stop entertainment. i researched this film for one perscfic camera shot which is the building shot and how it glides up towards the top of it , i will use this in the short film i create .

SAW

From the first minute to last this film twists and turns you till you feel rather poorly. Just like 'Se7en', the all-round Grittiness that director James Wan creates disgusts and enthralls. Just like 'Se7en', there is a huge twist that makes your blood curdle.

It is well scripted, well acted, and, for everyone who guesses the killer after the first few minutes, keeps you guessing right up to the final reel. It is better than Seven for shock value. It is not over the top gory but there is a final scene which makes you sweat.

Storyboard Research

It is important that i make a story board so it is clear what i am filming and what charaters are saying . This will save time and confusion . I have chosen these three examples because they are all different the first one clearly demonstrates where the story is going by the drawing , the second story board states what the camera is doing , what they are saying and where they actors are moving .the final story board is a brief story board  with annotation withy what happens in the scene . I will create a story board with a mixture of all the titles and annotattions like these storyboards .

Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity is a little film that was reportedly made for $11,000 over the course of a seven-day shoot by writer/director/producer/editor Oren Peli, and stars newbies Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat and the couple’s camcorder.

The best horror movies are the ones that exploit our deep-seated anxieties about real-life events or situations.  Paranormal Activity will stand out for a long time in my mind because it hits just the right panic buttons inside the brain: the familiar fear of the creaky, empty house at night – but more importantly, the high anxiety of being in a relationship.

The filmmaking techniques and the issue of the “shaky cam” POV. People have heard the concept for this film and worried that they were going to get another Blair Witch Project (too boring) or Cloverfield (seizure inducing camerawork). Paranormal Activity is only short one star for me because the pacing for the first half-hour of its 99 min run time was kind of slow, and offered more creepy atmosphere than actual scares. A slow half-hour in camcorder POV can feel like an eternity , however it seems so genuine and natural  that it’s easy to forget you’re watching a movie, and not actual home video footage. And since there are tripods set up around the house, shaky cam wasn’t really much of an issue. When the actors are holding the camera, every swipe and turn has you nervous that something is lurking just beyond the peripheral of the lens light.

The authentic feel is really the selling point of this film. It exploits enough realistic common ground  to make it feel personal (who hasn't heard that strange sound echo through their home now and again, or woken up to the feeling that somebody is standing over them?), and since few of us actually sleep with a running camcorder in our bedrooms, who’s to say we aren't being visited in the night by something evil?

I enojoyed watching this film and i intend to use some of the camera techniques used in this film .

Research - Independant film - Catfish

Catfish is the documentation of Yaniv “Nev” Schulman, a photographer out of New York, and his correspondence with an eight-year-old Michigan girl named Abby; a young artist who paints one of Nev’s photos and sends him one of her prints. As their relationship develops he begins making big decisions about his future based on the growing connection and attraction between he and Megan, but shortly before things come to a head the documentary begins to pose its larger questions, much of which is left for the audience to answer once they’ve left the theater.

When the story begins to truly unfold, and the gravity of the situation — what is real, who is real, and how simple it is to skew perception in an age of social media communication — they shortly realize that there is much more story than was ever planned for.
This, however, is one of the small catching points for me. For as organic as many of the unraveling situations are supposed to be, a number of the pivotal scenes save some of the last involving Abby’s family, come off as if they’ve gone through multiple takes. The reactions, while still genuine, feel streamlined and polished. There are heavy revelations in this film — things that, if I were in Nev’s shoes, would probably involve some level of fury. Ariel himself states that Nev is a mercurial young man, particularly when a camera is rolling on him. I didn’t see much of that, which again — makes me wonder.
I really enjoyed watching this film and i now want to film some of my film in point of view shots . i love how the story of love unfolds and how sad it is to see the reality . I have reviewed and researched Catfish because it is a low budget film and has a huge impact on the audience .

Reseach for film

Here I have researched the new Red Riding Hood and Tim Burtons 'Alice in Wonderland’. I have chosen these films because I want my final project to be a dark fairy tale movie which collides with reality. I have carefully watched and evaluated what is successful and what isn't so successful in these films. In Red Riding Hood I though the story took to long to come across to the audience however Red Riding Hood" takes a darker stride as it pulls viewers in with its cinematography and focus's on colour (much like M. Night Shyamalan in "The Village) I thought this was very successful and I want to execute cinematography like this in my film.

Tim Burton movie 'Alice in Wonderland', the cinematography, computer animation, costumes, and general visual style of the film were awesome. This movie got nominated for a ton of technical Oscars, and it deserves to be there because you can really see what effort they put into the style, I want to try and recreate this but without the huge budget.